Improvement in churns



- 0. A. WILLBANKS.

- lmprovementin Churns.

-No. 123,656. Patenfed Feb. 13, 1872'.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OrFIo DAVID A. WILLBANKS, or HARMONY GROVE, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHURNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,656, dated February 13, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Churn-Power and Churn, invented by DAVID A. WILLBANKs, of Harmony Grove, in the county of Jackson and State of Georgia.

Figurel represents the side elevation of a churn towhich my improvement is attached, and Fig. 2 a transverse section thereof.

,The invention will be first fully described and then clearly pointed out in the claim.

A in the drawing represents the frame of the churn-power, made in form of a bench or otherwise. Bis the churn; O, the dasher-rod, carrying a grooved pulley, a, over which the driving-belt b is placed. This belt draws the rod 0 against the ends of horizontal plates d, which are rigidly affixed to the frame A. The belt I) is placed around the pulley a and around the driving-wheel D, which is mounted upon the driving-shaft E. Between the pulley a and wheel D the belt is crossed around a guidepulley, f, double grooved, as shown, and hanging in fixed upright plates 9 of the frame. By

being crossed, the belt balances the guidepulley and reduces the friction on its bearings.

as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A The combination, as described, with a belt,

1), connecting two pulleys, of the looped rod h and pin j, to prevent the belt from becoming tangled when removed from dasher-rod.

' DAVID A. WILLBANKS.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM B. J. HARDMAN, SEABORN M. SHANKLE. 

